Slow Save Game Loading Issue FYI

[BigBodZod]

This is more to help others who may have come across the famous/infamous slow save game loading issue with Starfield, of course this has also caused issues with previous Bethesda games as well.

 

So I don't see this very often even though I like to play around with modding but I may have come across a single mod triggering this with a recent save game.

 

So I was getting a very slow load issue recently with a pretty new play through, taking about 2 ~ 5 minutes to load, regardless of where the save was from, be it Jemison or Mars etc...

 

The weird part was that in-game and zoning, was just fine, it was ONLY the initial loading of the save game.

 

Also note that it didn't matter if it was the exit save nor a quick save or normal save.

 

I had to do a lot of troubleshooting and first started by making any Vortex Mod Manager mods Inactive first.

 

This didn't seem to help and was still loading slow, even when disabling and not loading via SFSE.

 

I then went to making any Creation mods inactive and this fixed the loading time.

 

So I then went back to Vortex and enabled the mods pretty much one at a time to confirm the loading times were no longer being affected, none of them seem to trigger this issue so I moved back to the Creations mods and made them enabled one at a time.

 

By doing this all the Creation mods seemed to not trigger the issue any longer and I think that the new save game file no longer had what was causing the issue with this long loading time.

 

I suspect that one of the Creation mods may have triggered something that got saved which in turn caused the delay and I think it maybe the Starsim Mining Conglomerate

 

I had picked up one of the quests to get some resources, in this case a gas resource in the Verne system, however when I clicked on this system in the star map, the game gave me a general ERROR message of some sort, it also caused the system to be unreachable even if this quest was NOT ACTIVE.

 

So I wonder IF this may have been the trigger that caused the loading time issue ?

 

Now that I don't have that quest saved in the save game any longer things are working just fine, so I will do further testing to confirm, again this is only a suspicion.

[Texasdrummer96]

Hey there!

 

I just stumbled upon your post because I have the same issue! I can confirm that this issue is caused by the StarSim Mod. As soon as I deactivate the Plugin, my Save loads immediately again. With the mod activated again, it now takes about five minutes, but only when loading a save (which can get quite frustrating in a heavy fight).

I will point this issue out in their Discord, already seems we are not the only ones with this.

[BigBodZod]

Nice to know, thanks for the feedback

[indytims]

I am currently experiencing this now as well. And yes, it seems related to the mod mentioned previously, which is disappointing as the mod sounded like it had a lot of promise!